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Article from the Globe and Mail . Read through the article entitled: “ Union battles loom after Tories push to overhaul labour laws” and consider the following: What is happening in this situation between the federal union and the Conservative government?

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“Canada most emphatically wants immigrants… But at the same time she does not want that element if foreign agitators whose nihilistic hysteria may be the natural product of the unfortunate lands from which they come.” – May 21, 1919, The Telegraph, Quebec

“If instead of denouncing every labor outbreak as “revolutionary” and “disloyal” an attempt was made to understand the reasons behind it, the causes which induce workingmen to act as they do, something might be accomplished toward permanent settlement.” – May 27, 1919, The World, Vancouver

Thinking back to the article we read at the beginning of class, what similarities and differences do you see between how the government treated these “illegal” unions in 1919 and how they are treated today?

What can we conclude about the necessity of them through our history and into today?